{"id":659,"date":"2019-10-25T07:52:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T07:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/?page_id=659"},"modified":"2021-02-02T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T14:03:10","slug":"rume-myer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rememberingthejewsofww2.com\/raf\/rume-myer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rume, Myer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Flight Engineer, 424 (Tiger) Squadron
Service number 2209127
Died 25 May 1944
Commemorated on Runnymede Memorial
Age 20<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Myer was born in 1924 in Liverpool to Polish born Harry and Sophia n\u00e9e Marks. Myer had three siblings, Annie, David and Eva. Their father Harry worked as a clerk agent collector and served in the Royal Fusiliers in WW1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Myer was the flight engineer on Halifax LW157 which departed RAF Skipton on Swale on a night operation to Aachen for a bombing operation against the Rothe Erde railway station. Homeward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Peter Ehrhardt of the 9.\/NJG 5, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Mainz-Finthen airfield in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All the crew were killed and are commemorated on Runnymede Memorial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A\/G, John Neville Almond, RCAF J\/90182
Pilot, Francis Wilfred Dolter, RCAF J\/19999
W\/Op A\/G, James William Kellie, RCAF J\/89392
Nav, Gordon Alexander Wilson RCAF J\/88025
A\/G, Harold Kenneth Wilson RCAF J\/89778
A\/B, Norman Andison Wilson RCAF J\/89886<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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